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Amid discouraging math scores, are states improving elementary math instruction?

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According to NCTQ’s State of the States: Five Policy Levers to Improve Math Instruction report, Alabama is the only state that earns a ‘Strong’ rating for implementing a robust, comprehensive approach to improving math instruction across five core policy areas. Set specific, detailed math standards for teacher preparation programs.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. Adding applied math courses is also on the agenda.

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Showfloor News: MIND Education announces InsightMath, a math curriculum built on brain research

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MIND Education announced the launch of InsightMath , the only K-6 core math curriculum redefining math instruction with an approach explicitly designed around how the brain learns. With InsightMath, our hope is to create classrooms where every student is thinking, talking, and making sense of math.”

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Showfloor News: PBLWorks creates PBLWorks TEACH to help scale project based learning

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The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), is launching PBLWorks TEACH , a web-based application with ready-to-use, standards-aligned, Gold-Standard PBL projects for middle school math, science, English Language Arts, and social studies.

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Many students decide they’re not a ‘math person’ by the end of elementary school, new study shows

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Roughly half of middle and high schoolers report losing interest in math class at least half the time, and 1 in 10 lack interest nearly all the time during class, a new study shows. Feeling bored in math class from time to time is not an unusual experience, and feeling “math anxiety” is common.

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Young minds: New teachers’ impact on equitable science learning

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“Beginning teachers use a range of effective strategies to work toward more equitable science teaching. . “Beginning teachers use a range of effective strategies to work toward more equitable science teaching.

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How to integrate environmental concepts into every subject

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I asked myself: If a teachers role is to prepare students for the real world, shouldnt we be helping them solve the climate crisis? My goal became connecting students to nature through their passions and connecting teachers standards-driven curriculum to nature through environmental literacy.